L'Étincelle is a web and paper comic that I created as part of my master's thesis project in my Nurse Practitioner Program at Decker School of Nursing at Binghamton University.  It was created over the course of 3 months after months of planning and preparation.  The story takes the common themes of super hero and fantasy media and applies them to ( Read more... )

Hey... some good news.I FINISHED MY THESIS PROPOSAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Which means that I have no classes... but I have no idea what to do about my clinicals.  I'd usually be taking the bus down but I'm very nervous about doing such a long trip in such bad weather if it really is going to be as bad as they say it will be.

I submitted my Graduate Application for Degree and my Commencement Participation Form today.  And ( Read more... )

Yesterday Duckie and I took a day trip to Watertown to visit a friend of his who recently moved up here from GA.  It's a little over a 2 hour drive one-way.  Not so bad, ne???

WELL... neither of us thought to check the weather which is so dumb since it's been snowing all week and I know it's our fault for not looking but F U LAKE EFFECT SNOWZ!  D8<

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Got some hours and worked today for the first time in a couple months.  I really love my job.  I really love being a nurse.  I spend so much time feeling like I'm in process as a student, that I forget that I've already achieved something in becoming an RN.  And I can't honestly believe it... I've been a nurse for almost 3 years.  Gotta renew my ( Read more... )

Sakakibara Shihomi's book Yaoi genron from 1998 has yet to translated in whole (as far as I know).  Pieces of it have been used in many of the academic texts that I've read recently for my thesis project.  She seems like a very cool writer and one who has been able to verbalize a personal feeling of mine into a legitimizing context.  She describes ( Read more... )

In my Nurse Practitioner master's program we do a Capstone Project in place of a master's thesis.  My Capstone Project is focusing on LGBT adolescents and young adults.  I have to do a large literature review on LGBT mental health issues, policy development, and art and entertainment.  I also have to conduct interviews with healthcare providers who ( Read more... )

Finally got home yesterday from Philly.  I took my last final exam of the semester this morning.  I only did so-so, but that whole class has been giving me trouble all semester.  I'm hoping the prof goes into the exam and gets rid of some of the questions that tested poorly and gives us some points back so I can end that class with a solid B.   ( Read more... )

 Heeheehee, I woke up at 1pm.  What a treat ( Read more... )

 The semester is officially ova ( Read more... )